The Philadelphia Inquirer
December 13, 1925

POTTSVILLE MAROONS LOOSE LEAGUE FRANCHISE;
CALLED "OUTLAWS" FOR GAME HERE

Some important results of Pottsville's pro grid champions of 1925 meeting with the Four Horsemen yesterday afternoon at Shibe Park are that they have forfeited their franchise in the National League of Professional Football Players, have been outlawed from the league and have been deprived of their title., according to disclosures made public yesterday by the president of the league.

The Steam Rollers of Providence, Rhode Island, were slated to lock horns with Dr. Streigel's eleven today, but the league proxy announced that the game will not be played, since the ville [sic] is outlawed and if the Steam Rollers played the game they too would be deprived of their standing. By playing the Four Horsemen, according to Joe Carr, the league head, Pottsville infringed on the Frankford Yellowjackets' territorial rights and automatically became outlawed from the league.

Dr. Streigel, the well known Pottsville physician and owner of the Maroons, who triumphed 9 to 7 over the famous South Bend Collegians, claims that he had a verbal permission from the secretary of the league to play the game. This was when he had been approached by Frank Schumann, the Philadelphia promoter to meet the Four Horsemen, and was before Pottsville had won the league title by defeating the Chicago Cardinals for titular honors in the post season tilt waged in the Windy City recently.

At this opportune juncture the league secretary pulled a Coxey Dolan and proceeded to forget all about the verbal permission he had given Dr. Streigel over the long distance telephone. That eminent allopath then received word from Joe Carr that the game could not be played.

"Do you have written permission?" queried the esteemed Mr. Carr, of Streigel. The upshot of the whole matter was that Streigel informed the league head that he was going on with the game regardless and did so.

Reports emanating from Providence yesterday were to the effect that the Yellowjackets of Frankford, bruised from their 3 to 0 defeat at the hands of the Cleveland eleven, and not the Pottsville Maroons, would meet the Steam Rollers today. The rules of the league provide that for special and post season games within the radius of [?]0 miles, the team within that range has the first call.

Associated Press
December 13, 1925

HARRY STUHLDREHER CALLED AN OUTLAW
National League Claims He Violated Rule By Playing With Blues.

POTTSVILLE TEAM ALSO "IN BAD"
Chicago Cardinals Involved in Dispute Over Championship.

Chicago, Dec. 13 - (Associated Press.) - The squabble between the Chicago Cardinals and the Pottsville, Pa. Maroons, for the championship of the National Professional Football League may end with the outlawing of the Pottsville team, giving the Cardinals a clear title, Joseph Carr, president of the league indicated today.

With both teams claiming the title before yesterday's games, a new situation developed. The Cardinals beat Hammond, Ind., Pros, 13 to 0, and Pottsville trimmed a team headed by the "four horsemen" of Notre Dame at Philadelphia, 9 to 7.

President Carr said the Pottsville team in playing the "four horsemen" violated the rules and may lose its franchise. The game in Philadelphia, he said, was played in the territory of the Frankford Yellowjackets, which has the Philadelphia territory and therefore the game has been ruled an outlaw contest.

Stuhldreher on [???].

Also Harry Stuhldreher, one of the Four Horsemen, has been ruled a professional outlaw because at the beginning of the season he signed to play with the Providence, R.I., Steam Rollers of the National League but jumped the contract and played with an independent team at Hartford, Conn., in playing against him the entire Pottsville team has laid itself liable to being outlawed.

As the league standing now is, the Cardinals have won eleven games, lost two and played one tie. Pottsville has won ten games, lost two. Cardinals official said they are claiming the title but that the entire matter would have to be thrashed out at the league meeting in January.